I find this useful where you have mixed case:
SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE values ~* 'JYR';
Andrew
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John McKown <joarmc@swbell.net>
Sent by: pgsql-general-owner@hub.org
19/09/00 11:27
To: John Draper <crunch@webcrunchers.com>
cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to search for sub-strings...
Assuming that the name of the table is "test1" and the variable containing
the values of interest is name "values", then:
SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE values LIKE 'JYR%';
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, John Draper wrote:
> Ok, I have a question... lets say I have a key fields like this...
>
> JYR-34a
> JYR-34b
> JYR-34c
> JJG-67
> jUY-89
>
> I want to do a query on a substring, such that I can get all three
> of the JYR's to come up, regardless if it has an "a", "b", or "c"
> after it. Is that possible in SQL? If so, what would the query
> look like?
>
> John
>
>
